#softomon

[tyhi]

gives u the hello kitty cup :) what kinda sweets or snacks do u like if any btw?

awesome!!!

i like macaroons and other meringue-based things.

i also like oat cookie with chocolate chip - i can actually make these lol!!

ohh and.... tahini halva...... my beloved....

[bookofavarice]

boop boop boop boop boop boop x3

Boop to you too!!!! X3

[lavendernarwhal72]

*gasp* have I not shown you all my Professor Layton 2DS skin yet? Shame on me. Allow me to fix that:

[image ID: a blue 2DS on covered in the Professor Layton and the Unwound/Lost Future cover image on the front and back of the device. The DS is on beige carpet. End ID]

[stick-by-me]

Silly sea creatures :D

New follower sticker for: @softomon!

More like this from my collection: Forest

[namu-the-orca]

HELLO PEOPLE i just wanted to say that i read all your hashtags on your reblogs and honestly they bring me so much joy thank you ♥ thank you for being here and thank you for enjoying my art and thank you for marveling at the wonderful world around us together.

@fuckblast first off thank you for the follow ♥ and i am really glad you like the painting as much as i do!! but most of all thank you for feeling these feelings with me. Like on one hand what an amazing life to live in the open ocean diving to dark depths where other mammals rarely go and to see all these things that would be so beautiful and alien to us. but at the same time how awful to perhaps be torn apart by a killer whale on any given day.

@softomon WAAAAA YOU GET IT - to have escaped death only to realise you wish for nothing else.... that single line is the main reason i picked these lyrics to go along with the painting ;w; also i am very happy you liked my dream marshmallows too!!

@handbellanon thank you for your insight regarding the layout! this is a painting i have struggled with for SO LONG it kind of messes up your view of it. and after finally finishing this version, i saw the old one again and went "huh". but i have to say that now i am preferring the current version more! also yeah don't you love how in your dreams things can clearly be (not) some thing but at the same time your mind knows they are definitely (not) the thing.

@purplesaline hooraayyy another one for the current layout! i am glad it works out this way and you are right, all the fins in front may have been more distracting than interesting. loool i love the sperm whale x beluga vibe. friend shaped they are for sure! and it makes me really happy that you noticed all those tiny details like the blue edges!! i have to admit i mostly added them to make the painting pop and look edgy and cool because i see other cool artists doing it too and i love how their art looks haha. and the eyes!!! i made them slightly off putting on purpose, glad it shows >:D

@lesbiangelbaby yeaaaa show some love for our butch mountain lion!! here they are in the flesh. i have been trying to find the original source but no luck unfortunately :( however i did find out its a well liked meme format in Japan and Russia so there's that. im really glad some of these scribbles are meaningful to you (and others) as well ♥ they were to me too at the time but sometimes now, reading back, they come across as kind of corny. so i am glad others are able to connect to them as well

[tyhi]

@softomon

[tyhi]

evil boops u!! >:3

omg get booped !!!!!!

[lavendernarwhal72]

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@softomon this is what I got you for Christmas, I hope you like it :)

[bookofavarice]

@softomon

[tyhi]

oo wait i have another one thats not entirely about plants but still related to gardens so: what bugs regularly visit ur garden or live there and do u have any favorite garden bugs?

there are a lot of bugs i see regularly! there's stinkbugs, bees and wasps, ladybugs, spiders, ants, mosquitoes, another kind of biting bug that looks kinda like a fly, and a lot lot more. teeny tiny red bug, teeny tiny green bug .. i dont know their names LOL. sometimes i see dragonflies too. there are also pests like potato eating bugs. i respect them on like a spiritual level but we have conflicting interests unfortunately.

i love bees especially, there are a lot of beekeepers in my lineage and i was exposed to honeybees at a young age so i feel smth like a kinship with them. plus theyre just plain cute.

thanks for the ask :3

[tyhi]

a plant question: what are the oldest plants you have and how long have they been with u? do u remember the first plants u ever took care of?

i have a cutting from an epipremnum that's been in my family for a while. maybe around 10 years? i got the original plant a few years ago but it had pests and didn't survive. my mom potted one of the cuttings and it's doing beautifully at her place and i have one living in a jar doing pretty okay too.

my other plants are not very old, i think the oldest ones are a fern and a snake plant that we bought together, maybe like 4 years ago?

the fern nearly died once when i forgot to water it for a while. one leaf survived and it's doing great again now :)

the snake plant has happily been split into several pots by now.

i was honestly really bad with plants up until like 5-6 years ago, so all the plants i had before then (not many, and only like 1-3 at a time usually) just. died because i had no understanding of how to... keep them in mind and understand their needs i guess. i had a cactus at some point when i was young, and some potted flowers i got for my birthdays and stuff like that. i also used to try to grow mint on my windowsill sometimes.

now i have 23 plants in here and they are all more-or-less happy or at least okay/stable lol. #personal growth 🩷 [pink heart emoji]

thanks for the ask!

[tyhi]

top 5 plants, if any? (no rules tho, u can list as many or few as u want^^)

yay thank u for the ask !!

i will number them, but i have to say the numbering is pretty arbitrary. just how i feel this very second :p

1. i love snake plants because they're soo chill and barely need anything to be happy (or at least okay). i have many of them because i bought one and separated it + i got two diff ones for free at a plant exchange event :)

2. (i dont have any, but) tillandsia is v cool like omg. it doesnt need soil whaaaaaaat? i want to get one soon (⁠♡⁠ω⁠♡⁠ ⁠)

3. dryopteris ferns (aka "wood ferns" apparently) they just have a great vibe. i feel like they know about stuff but theyre still like super humble. also their leaves feel nice and stimmy soft. i have one in my living room <3

4. kale wants me to live and be strong and healthy and happy for sure. plus their leaves are so cool and strong and especially the purple kinds are sooo cool. i think if they were people they'd be like, elder skateboarders or something.

5. borage aka starflower (what a good name!!). it looks maaagical (totally effervescent) because of the bristles its covered in. also it tastes like cucumber (tho apparently its slightly toxic but parts are still edible) and sows its own seeds readily enough that we introduced it to our field Once and it keeps coming back every year. i love that. also its got pretty little pinkish-blueish flowers. i like to use it in smoothies :3

and shout outs to

- potatoes, for being an eternally cloned staple food with poisonous berries that are the only real way of breeding them/starting actual new plants which hardly anyone does;

- tomatoes for being somehow both kinda hardy and also incredibly fragile and hard to grow. (and for tasty fruits obviously.) there's a tomato plant that i just took out of its pot and put in a bucket that happened to have soil at the bottom, because i didnt have space for it so i was gonna compost it, but now its sitting in the bucket looking incredibly sad and also growing a couple tomatoes on there. wild. i burned a bunch of other ones with fertilizer this year while planting them. last year they were stunted because they didn't get fertilizer at the right time. love them. also i had some bush-type tomato plants growing on my indoor windowsills last year, and they kept producing throughout winter (tho slower) and they are still alive and going (!!!) but i had to plant them outside because they got lil white bugs on them :( i wonder if otherwise i could've kept them for another winter... im thinking of starting some new ones right now even though theyre normally sown in like march lol.

- cucumber for growing tasty watery fruit. i love cucumber but they're also soo like. babby... they want moist air and their roots are sensitive (much more than tomato roots) but its worth it, i keep telling myself. last year i got like maybe 20 cucumber fruits altogether. but we love fermented (not pickled) cucumber. lovely tasty salty probiotic snack.

- there's so many. really there's something to love abt all of the plants i have experience with. basil, parsley, mint, raspberry, strawberry, aloe vera (i have so many on my windowsill and they keep multiplying bless them), mimosa pudica (cutie pie tho i had a hard time taking care of it unfortunately), littleleaf linden tree (their flowers make wonderful tea), and uhh just so many more.

thanks again for the fun ask!!! 🍀🌻☺️

[bookofavarice]

@softomon

yes yesy yes yes yes yes hell yes ys yes yes

[tyhi]

@softomon

Happy little guys 🩵💙💜🖤

[lavendernarwhal72]

stealing @softomon’s tags

MOOD. Puzzles are all fun and games until you can’t do math. In which case the “solve puzzle button” unfortunately is just systematically guess number until you get it right or look up the answer.

[image ID: screenshot of tumblr tags that read #the professor: “break it down into multiple steps. have you tried calculating each step?” #me through tears: THERE ARE NUMBERS ON THERE AND I CAN’T FUCKING READ PLEASE HELP #i they shuold add a solve puzzle button. i would abuse that with all the numbers puzzles #professor layton End ID]

professor layton puzzle will be like oh you want a hint? dumbass? here's your hint: fucking look at the puzzle

[tyhi]

@softomon

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